The Democratic People’s Party (DPP) Governorship Candidate in Delta state in 2011, Chief Great Ogboru has thrown his weight behind the suspension of the Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
Ogboru who spoke with reporters in Akure, said if the allegation levelled against Sanusi was anything to go by, he deserved to be sacked and put on criminal trial immediately.
He noted that Sanusi was disrespectful to the person of the President and the nation irrespective of the fact that he might have been saying what appeared like the truth.
According to him, the manner with which Sanusi presented his case was wrong and it should never have come from him as he was not the right person to raise the issue.
He said, “ A Central Bank governor is a conservative person, but Sanusi appears more like a politician and an activist, meanwhile, he said he is a banker. These are mutually exclusive traits and can never be characteristics that make up one person.
“It is either you are a banker, an activist or you are a politician. The choice was for him to make and he made a wrong one. He put on the suit of a banker and the cap of an activist. And when he spoke, he spoke like a politician. These are very confusing.
“I have gone through some of the allegations made against him. I think they are grave, even worse than some of the things he accused some bank executives of having done and for which some of them went to prison and their families were disgraced.
“I think if those allegations are true, then he deserved to be sacked and put on criminal trial immediately. That way, he can defend himself. Frankly, I think this man did not behave well. He was very disrespectful to the institution of the Presidency. He was disrespectful to the person of the president and I think by extension, he was disrespectful to the nation”.
Ogboru added that Sanusi should have resigned when he discovered that his advice was not getting to the right quarters, stressing that, “Sanusi cannot sit down in the house and be pulling it down”.
He wondered why Sanusi had to wait for the NNPC fund to accumulated to billions before raising unnecessary alarm.
He added, “The kind of different whopping sums which Sanusi mentioned are not sums that could accumulate overnight. What did he do before the amount got to $1billion, $2billion and then rose to $49 billion or $20 Billion or whatever figure he wants us to believe? What did he do? Was he waiting for the amount to become outrageous so that he can now be heard very loudly as a politician? If so, then he is an irresponsible man who does not know his job -
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